Re: [Dev] [DEV] Using a Proxy or an API is the best practice for a secured legacy(SOAP) back end service.

2017-11-14 Thread Thivya Mahenthirarasa
Hi Abimaran, Thank you for the explanations. Regards, Thivya On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Abimaran Kugathasan wrote: > Hi Thivya, > > Normally, API refers to REST APIs, while a proxy service can be used with > any type of backend services like HTTP, WSDL, [1]. Since

Re: [Dev] [DEV] Using a Proxy or an API is the best practice for a secured legacy(SOAP) back end service.

2017-11-13 Thread Abimaran Kugathasan
Hi Thivya, Normally, API refers to REST APIs, while a proxy service can be used with any type of backend services like HTTP, WSDL, [1]. Since you have a WSDL service as the backend, better to use WSDL Based Proxy, otherwise you have to convert REST to SOAP before sending to the backend. Also,